April Zhu

April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. She writes about gender, urban inequality, and Chinese–Kenyan relations, and her work has appeared in The South China Morning Post Magazine, VOA News, The New Humanitarian, CS Monitor, and African Arguments, among others. (May 2020)

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Kenya’s Human Rights Emergency

The Public Order Act President Kenyatta invoked to enable his government’s pandemic measures is a colonial relic that gives police license to “round up pretty much anyone they choose, anywhere they choose,” writes political analyst Nanjala Nyabola.

July 22, 2020

China’s Own Virus Scapegoats

Though highly motivating and thus politically useful, once it gains momentum, this Chinese nationalism—of which the virulent online anti-black racism we’ve seen recently is a strain—is difficult to moderate.

May 5, 2020

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